Trinity Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Cottage.

Trinity Cottage

WRENN ID
sombre-belfry-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Trinity Cottage, Sheepcote Lane, Castle Hedingham
OS grid reference
TL 784 353
Coordinates
51.9881, 0.59755
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Trinity Cottage is a cottage that dates from the 18th century or earlier, with some later alterations. It features a timber frame that is lined with ashlar plaster, and has red brick facing on the return. The roof is covered with red plain tiles, and there is a red brick chimney stack on the right side. The cottage is two storeys high and has a two-window range of small paned vertically sliding sash windows, each with moulded drip hoods above. The central entrance consists of a four-panel door with two lights and a moulded drip hood. At the rear left, there is a single storey lean-to, and there is also a moulded drip hood above the door on the left return.

Local climate

Trinity Cottage sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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